Candy-machine.



No. 717,756. I PATENTED JAN. 6, 1903.

W. J. MORRISON & J. G. WHARTON.

CANDY MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 12, 1902.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

l/VILLIAM J. MORRISON AND JOHN C. VVHARTON, OF NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE.

CANDY-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 717,756, dated January 6, 1903.

Application filed May 12, I902.

T0 at whom, it may concern:

Be it known that'we, WILLIAM J. MORRI- SON and JOHN C. \VHARTON, citizens of the United States, residing at Nashville, in the county of Davidson and State of Tennessee, have invented a new and useful Candy-Machine, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to improvements in candy-machines in which arotative perforated vessel is supplied with an electricallyheated band or coil of suitable metal.

The objects of our improvement are to obtain a candy in the form of fine filaments or threads, as well as asolid form of stick-candy; We attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which-- Figure 1 is a vertical section of the machine as mounted upon a rotative shaft or spindle. Fig. 2 is a plan View of the lower portion of the vessel proper and the corrugated heatingband with the electrical connections.

Similar letters refer to similar parts in both of the figures.

A A represent, respectively, the lower and upper parts of the containing vessel, having perforations or apertures at T T. The parts A and A are held together by posts P P, by which the apertures T T may also be regulated as to width of openings.

B B represent a corrugated band of metal having such electrical resistance as to become heated'by the passage of a current of electricity through it. This band may be replaced by a coiled wire or other suitable form of the resistive metal referred to above. The band B has at its extremities wires or conductors M M, connecting it through suitable insulating material, as O, O, and G, with commutators I I, and the commutators receive the electricity from any suitable source through conductors L L, joined to the brushes H H, which are in sliding contact with the sleeves or commutators I I.

The vessel A A is secured to the tubular insulator G by means of the internal and ex ternal screws E and F, and the tubular part of G is mounted on the shaft or spindle K, which shaft is rotatable, being the axis of an Serial No. 106,923. (Nb model.)

electric or other motor, not otherwise shown in the illustrations.

The vessel A A carries a grater R, attached to the rim of its upper portion A.

The band B is supported by suitable pins S S, held in place between A and A.

The wires or conductors M M may for the sake of convenience in taking apart or putting together be passed centrally through the screws E and E into their positions inside of the vessel A A, proper insulation being supplied as the case demands.

In operation granulated sugar 0 is poured into the vessel A A through a central opening D, the motor carrying the shaft K is started, and the electric current is turned on through the conductors L L, brushes H H, commutators I I, conductors M M, and resistance coil or band B B. The band B B being heated to a sufficient degree, which is controlled by a rheostat, (not shown in the drawings,) causes the sugar O to melt, and the centrifugal force, due to the rotation of the vessel A A, eXpels the melted sugar through the apertures T T in line of arrows N in the form of silk-like threads, or by regulating the heat, form of heater, and receptacle a hard variety of stick-candy may be made. Since the molten sugar becomes more fluid at a higher temperature, its tendency to form threads is lessened at the increased heat, and the molten sugar may be received into a receptacle placed very near to the rotating vessel, so as to confine the heat and receive the liquid sugar in its molten condition on the surface of a cylindrical or polygonal receptacle, which chills, forming sticks or bars of such shapes as the receptacle may be made to give it.

Grated fruits, &c., may be thrown into the candy by holding them against the grater R While the machine is in motion.

The admixture of the grated material with the fibrous material is effected in various ways-as, for instance, by a deflecting-flange on the outer edge of the grater, by lessening the speed of rotation, or by raising the vessel containing the fibrous material during the said time of rotation.

Having described our invention, what we stantially as shown and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof We have signed our names to this specification in the presence of [5 two subscribing witnesses.

WVILLIAM J. MORRISON. JOHN C. YVHARTON.

Witnesses:

JNo. H. M. MILLIN, J. A. FLOERSH.

claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, in a candy-machine, of a rotative, circumferentially-perforated vessel A A, and an electrically resistive band or heater, B, connected to a source of electric- I ity, substantially as shown and for the pur- I pose set forth.

2. The combination, in a candy-machine, of a rotative, circumferentially-perforated vessel A A, heater B, and a grater R, sub- 

